'Toughest' Munro-bagging record broken by a week

red_harrington

red_harrington

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I can't even begin to imagine how tough this could be

Just walking up and down one of those mountains, once, is enough to knock me out for a day; he did 282 of them in less than a month
 
I've often thought that fell runners are the ultimate athletes.

No cosy stadium with a perfect smooth running surface & crowd cheering you on.

Instead it's running solo up and down mountains via steep and rocky paths, often in atrocious - and very dangerous - weather conditions, and you have to navigate too! It's easy to get lost up there.
 
Amazing feat. It was the first time he'd climbed some of the Munros. There are some tricky bits where it must have been difficult to keep concentration, when physically tired.
 
Astonishing. I wonder how he managed the Innaccessible Pinnacle thing on Skye. And the midges...:unsure:

I've done about 15-20 - all in my younger days the most most rewarding and most challenging been the An Teallach range up near Ullapool.
 
I'm in the 70's and have done none for at least 20 years but will finish them in retirement.

An-Teallach is a good shout (in winter especially) but you can't beat the Cuillin Ridge.

And, agreed, amazing feat.
 
Linthorpe_Exile said:
Astonishing. I wonder how he managed the Innaccessible Pinnacle thing on Skye. And the midges...:unsure:

I've done about 15-20 - all in my younger days the most most rewarding and most challenging been the An Teallach range up near Ullapool.
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Solo up the easy side and hope someone has a rope you can use to ab off the steep and shorter side (speaking through experience)
 
I've done about 100 over my life. Some of the remainder are quite inaccessible, or in my case unclimbable, like InPin.
 
Soutra said:
I've done about 100 over my life. Some of the remainder are quite inaccessible, or in my case unclimbable, like InPin.
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I'm about 50 short of finishing but not done many in the last 15 years. InPin isn't difficult, unless you haven't a head for heights!
 
bear66 said:
I'm about 50 short of finishing but not done many in the last 15 years. InPin isn't difficult, unless you haven't a head for heights!
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Hmm, this is from the Guardian -

"We had come to the glorious Isle of Skye, in northwest Scotland, for the most notorious mountaineering challenge in Britain: an assault on the Inaccessible Pinnacle, a hellish fin of unforgiving rock sheering up from the mighty Cuillin. A holy grail for climbers, the almost entirely rocky Cuillin is Britain’s most spectacular mountain range – and the Inpin, as the pinnacle is nicknamed, is its most coveted prize. "

I'm a walker, or hiker perhaps, not a climber. I've seen InPin in the distance, and it looked exactly like described in the Guardian. It will remain unclimbed by me, at least.
A guy died nearly died last month falling from InPin. I know my place...
 
Soutra said:
Hmm, this is from the Guardian -

"We had come to the glorious Isle of Skye, in northwest Scotland, for the most notorious mountaineering challenge in Britain: an assault on the Inaccessible Pinnacle, a hellish fin of unforgiving rock sheering up from the mighty Cuillin. A holy grail for climbers, the almost entirely rocky Cuillin is Britain’s most spectacular mountain range – and the Inpin, as the pinnacle is nicknamed, is its most coveted prize. "

I'm a walker, or hiker perhaps, not a climber. I've seen InPin in the distance, and it looked exactly like described in the Guardian. It will remain unclimbed by me, at least.
A guy died nearly died last month falling from InPin. I know my place...
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It's graded as a 'moderate' rock climb. Most people could technically manage a V diff climb without being too skillful in climbing. It is exposed though and some bits can be slippery in the wet (basalt as opposed to the nice gabbro in other parts). There are a lot of guides who'll get you up there safely.
 
It's actually objectively safer to climb the shorter/steeper side, from what I remember there was only one "hard" move and we managed to haul my (fat) mate past it. It's not exposed at all.
 
smogontherhine said:
It's actually objectively safer to climb the shorter/steeper side, from what I remember there was only one "hard" move and we managed to haul my (fat) mate past it. It's not exposed at all.
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Did you use ropes on the west ridge? That looks more difficult to me!
 
bear66 said:
Did you use ropes on the west ridge? That looks more difficult to me!
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No, it was very exposed but easy (and dry). Wouldn't fancy down-climbing it though without a rope.
I also lead the south crack (the shorter one mentioned above) a separate time and dragged my mate up there as he didn't fancy the exposure on the west ridge.
 
smogontherhine said:
No, it was very exposed but easy (and dry). Wouldn't fancy down-climbing it though without a rope.
I also lead the south crack (the shorter one mentioned above) a separate time and dragged my mate up there as he didn't fancy the exposure on the west ridge.
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Braver than me!
 
Oh... and there were two other guys waiting hopefully at the bottom for some equipped climbers (like us) to help them up too, we dragged them up it after lending them a harness. I'm sure this happens all the time.
 
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